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28 • LMGI COMPASS | Summer 2026 Landman LANDMAN Season 2 The high-stakes world of West Texas oil moves between Fort Worth and the oil patch by pickup truck on dusty roads or private jet commandeered at a moment's notice—Downtown Sundance Square, the Petroleum Club of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Stockyards portray the industry's wealth in real, upscale Texas locales, while Midland and Odessa capture the lives of those working the fields—morning coffee at Babes N' Brew, evenings unwinding at the Patch Café, a raucous local gathering place carved out of a former autobody shop. A remote ranch dotted with decommissioned oil infrastructure provides a tank battery site with a deadly leak, while corporate backstabbing plays out in the glass-walled board room on the 40th floor of an office tower. Exquisite mansions and modest ranch homes complete the contrast—and amp up the tension between those making billion- dollar decisions and those working in the field . OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES PLURIBUS A pessimistic novelist living in Albuquerque is among a handful of people immune to an extraterrestrial virus that has transformed the rest of humanity into a peaceful hive mind, and to whom her negativity is toxic. Strategically sited for its unobstructed mountain views and distant city lights, a cul-de- sac of seven homes was constructed for her neighborhood to dramatically establishes the edges of her lonely world. As she travels to connect with other immune humans, Spain's Las Palmas de Gran Canaria doubles for Tangier, the labyrinthine hillside barrios with their winding vertical streets a disorienting contrast to Albuquerque's flat grid, while long stretches of coastal roadways and dense jungle map the journey of another character traveling from Paraguay to New Mexico. The futuristic Oviedo Congress Center in Asturias, an abandoned luxury resort in Big Sky, Montana, and a deserted Las Vegas describe the new reality of a woman clinging tenaciously to her humanity. SLOW HORSES Season 5 A dysfunctional team of MI5 agents, exiled to the unglamorous purgatory of Slough House, once again finds itself defending the UK from sinister forces when one of their own becomes compromised by a beautiful young woman. The modern glass severity of the MI5 headquarters combines Regent's Park and the Old Royal Naval College—a sharp contrast with their shabby office that uses the same Aldersgate Street building exterior that inspired the unglamorous setting in the books. The story moves from the tony Primrose Hill home of a scheming politician to the Victorian grandeur of Hartsfield Manor and the angular, crystalline New London City Hall in Docklands, before settling into grittier, less-photographed corners of the capital— alleys, skate parks, housing estates, underpasses and a favorite greasy spoon in Smithfield as the motley crew once again outwits its adversaries and their M15 superiors. Pluribus Slow Horses